As a national us to five main areas of concern: organization that exists to promote the views and opinions of our membership, we examine and 1. Psychotropics were prescribed immediately upon report on the themes observed in their stories with (or shortly after) entry into the child and family the ultimate goal of improving the services and services system. [...] The state (province or sanctioned protocols and services that provide for territory) then assumes legal guardianship of the the protection and substitute care of children and young person, and thus is considered to be acting in adolescents who, for a variety of reasons, cannot be loco parentis (in place of the parent). [...] The YCJA replaced the Young Offender’s transferred to the adult court system.11 Before imposing a Act in April 20038 and applies to all young people custodial sentence, the court must consider all reasonable ages 12 to 17 at the time they are said to have alternatives that are capable of holding the young person committed a crime. [...] This group also stated that 4. A shared belief that the healing needs of systems relying on pharmacotherapy20 without the use of youth often go unaddressed with the sole use of psychotherapeutic options such as counselling, is an psychotropics; unsatisfactory approach to treating the mental health disorders or emotional struggles encountered by young 5. The abuse of and dependency on psychotropics [...] As a comparison, while no national statistic could be Time and again respondents spoke of the difficult located as to the total number of Canadian youth who and traumatizing circumstances that lead to systems are prescribed psychotropics, the percentage of the involvement.